The treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) has improved dramatically ... “People conceptualize myelin as insulation around a wire. But axons cannot survive for very long without the critical ...
a common model for neuroinflammation in humans with MS. The disease is caused by the erosion of a protective sheath, made of myelin, that normally surrounds nerve cells. Without this protection ...
Parts of these neurons are protected by an insulating layer called a myelin sheath. If you have multiple sclerosis (MS), your immune system attacks these myelin sheaths as if they were invaders.
Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the fatty sheath that covers nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic central nervous system (CNS) disease that affects the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. Even in the absence of symptoms, the disease is continuously active ...
Conducted in the wake of the vicious October 7, 2023, terrorist attack by Hamas, the study is among the few in the world to examine how extreme stressful events such as war affect MS progression.